Tag: Real Estate Sector

Aiming to invest in the real estate sector, India Infoline Ltd (IIFL) plans to raise two new funds. The group is on the verge to close its first two funds. Private equity funds are considered as very keen to the real estate developers now. They are approaching PE firms for funding their projects. Builders always […]

Uttar Pradesh has seen an increase in the realty investment, reported Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India. Analyzing the growth rate of realty investment in Uttar Pradesh, Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India has reported that the state has received a growth in the investment level.

Realty boom in Guwahati has attracted property investors to the city. Northeast as a whole has witnessed a realty boom in the recent years. The developers in the Northeast states like Assam are happier now as they are witnessing a realty boom across these states. However Guwahati is one of the key cities in the […]

The government has recently revised some SEZ Policies. Under the new SEZ Policies SEZ development requires lower scale of land parcels. The small scale real estate developers may now be able to develop some SEZ projects. Moreover cities like Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and others will have more SEZ projects. All these have become possible with […]

Budget 2013 will improve the housing demand in the tier-2 cities, says Anuj Puri. With a deduction on loans up to Rs.25 lakh for the first-time-home buyers, the demand in the metros would not be affected, he added. As against the sky reaching expectations of the real estate players and the developers, many of the […]

Real estate India will gain a boost from the Finance Ministry of India. With the plan to provide bank loans to the real estate players with halted project the Finance Ministry aims to lift them up. Finally real estate has some good news from the Finance Ministry. Reliable sources reveal that the ministry had talks […]

The LiveNRI has announced an upcoming India Property Road Show on May 5th 2012 (Saturday) and May 6th 2012 (Sunday). The timings will be 11am and 7pm (by appointment only). It is an option for investors and home buyers, who are looking for nice property in India. The new solution has been developed to meet […]

Shares of real estate companies with significant exposure in Mumbai slumped in a weak market today after media reports surfaced that the Maharashtra government proposes to hike stamp duty for properties. Shares of realty players like India Bulls, Oberoi and HDIL today slumped as much as 6 per cent after reports that the state government […]

Real estate players were disappointed with the Budget saying it failed to highlight the role of the housing sector in the economy. The Union Budget 2012-13 on Friday proposed allowing external commercial borrowing for low cost affordable housing projects. Presenting the Budget in the Lok Sabha, the Finance Minister, Mr Pranabh Mukherjee, also proposed setting […]

According to a recent survey conducted by a leading real estate website Delhi is the most preferred location to buy a house, Mumbai follows next. It is interesting to note that Bangalore and Hyderabad come at the third most favored location for buying property. Photo by nancyarora2020The nationwide poll named ‘Realty Trends 2010’ for metros […]

Photo by Farruska Europe is once again back into action with an prelude of investment for Kolkata’s real estate in a move deemed “a first” by experts. Expo Real, the largest European B-to-B trade fair for the international property and investment market , is the biggest European commercial property trade fair.this is an annual event that […]

Indian real estate in the last few months has authenticated a reawakening enforced by a noticeable increase in the level of construction activity of low-budget housing coupled with low home loan rates. As researched by Boston Analytics, the Indian realty sector has undergone an increased supply and pace of development activity which brought an improvement […]

In its upcoming mid-term appraisal, the Planning Commission is likely to introduce couple of new schemes for real estate sector so that it acquires a priority status at times of meltdown and provide for “affordable housing”. Announcing this at the ASSOCHAM National Conclave on Threat Before Real Estate Sector – What are Solutions? held here […]

The adverse effects of the Satyam fiasco are not only going to be felt by the IT industry. Even the real estate sector is worried. If global clients and investors in the IT domain decide that India is not the best place to dabble in for the moment, then there is going to be an […]

After a long run, Indian real estate sector has begun to show signs of slump. In fact, the present changes that Indian economy and real estate sector is going through can also been seen as the test of the resilience of the economy and our real estate sector. In fact, real estate sector is a […]

Marutham Group, the new name in the city’s real estate sector, opened its first venture, Marutham Gateway. The group, based in Chennai, has opened its new venture just opposite to the railway station at Pettah here. The project comes with a number of features. The two and three-bedroom apartments offer maximum use of space and […]

Fears of slowdown, delay in project execution and delivery and plunging profit margins continue to haunt investors who have put their money in realty stocks. According to real estate sector report by Religare Securities, there has been a noticeable decline in enquiry numbers for residential property over the past few months. While terming all real […]

ASSOCHAM ask RBI to increase the cap on priority sector home loans from Rs 20 lakhs to Rs 40 lakh. The industry body asks RBI to raise the limit in at least the metro cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata as the property prices are increasing at a faster pace in these places. Assocham […]

IL&FS real estate fund has mopped up $895 million (Rs 43,855 crore), promising overseas investors a return as high as 25%. The fund, called the IL&FS India Reality Fund 2, closed on Monday. Nearly 50% of the investment in the fund has come from US-based investors. The money has been raised at a time when […]

The real-estate sector does not see any boost in government’s package. The 4% Cenvat reduction on all non-petroleum products will bring down steel prices by Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,500 which in turn may lower prices in the real-estate sector where steel is a basic input. But real-estate industry today passionately said that the stimulus […]

U.K.-based Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), a leading organization of its kind in the world for professionals in property, land, construction, and related environmental issues, on Thursday announced its entry into India and setting up of an institute for the real estate sector in the country. Over one lakh property professionals working in the […]

India’s struggling real estate sector is set to come under further pressure in the coming weeks as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made it tougher for banks to ‘restructure’ loans, forcing them to cut house prices or risk being starved of bank funding. Banks often resort to restructuring loans — a practice aimed […]

Fund-starved realtors may heave a sigh of relief. Banks are now considering loans to this sector on case-to-case basis, especially for those facing genuine liquidity problems. The move follows Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s assurance to the industry that liquidity should not be a problem for companies having good fundamentals. Leading bankers have started asking developers […]

The tight liquidity condition and the rise in interest rates have affected realty sector hard. Because of the RBI’s policy of discouraging banks in lending to real estate developers, the fund flow to the sector has dwindled. This might even force a number of units to close down. The construction sector, which is the second […]

Real estate sector was the biggest loser in today’s stock market plunge, led by country’s second largest firm Unitech that witnessed a sharp fall of over 51%. The realty index witnessed a 24.4% decline, which is more than double the benchmark index Sensex fall of nearly 11%. The index has fallen by 31 per cent […]